A novelist is haunted by the belief that he can cause disaster.
An ex-con , framed for a murder he did not commit, plots revenge but instead discovers a fresh crime.
During a transatlantic flight, a boffin works out that the plane’s tail is about to fall off from metal fatigue.
A music hall comic becomes swollen-headed, but returns to his home village and marries his childhood sweetheart.
Villagers resist when German paratroopers invade an English village and the squire proves to be a quisling.
Petruchio violently tames his shrewish wife.
A Foreign Office man apparently commits suicide; his colleague is unconvinced and finally uncovers a spy ring.
A middle-aged actor on the skids despearately rounds up his contacts and becomes the star of a TV commercial.
A randy TV personality finds himself outplotted by a waif he picks up.
An heiress with hiccups is helped by the staff of the BBC.
In Morocco, an American pilot solves the shooting of his wife.
Divorcing parents think again when their twelve-year-old daughter runs away.
A chain of violent events is set in motion when a millionaire mysteriously disappears before his wedding.
The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
A Lancashire family runs into trouble when stern father insists that teenage daughter should eat a meal she refuses.
Two young men-about-town become accidentally involved with the police and inadvertently expose a wife’s adultery.
Two English ladies inherit an Italian villa and fall under the spell of the handsome handyman, who marries one of them and proceeds slowly to poison her.
An Allied surgeon falls under suspicion when his enemy patient is later found dead.
Life between the wars for a London suburban family.
A diamond merchants’ secretary gets fired by her new boss for being too efficient.
A compulsive mother (of eight children) finds her third marriage rocking when she gets evidence of her husband’s affairs.
A meek-and-mild engineer crossing the Atlantic gains confidence when told that anything is possible during the hour ‘lost’ every day.
A penniless Irish baronet is forced to sell his land, but gets mistaken for the estate’s groom and stays on to help train a colt for a prestigious race.
By mutual agreement, a sports mistress and a mermaid change places for a while.
In 1805, impulsive Lady Caroline Ponsonby marries William Lamb, later Lord Melbourne, and then disgraces him by her wildness.